Example sentences of "[conj] in this [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were opposed by Anthony Cary , Lord Falkland , a Tory , who argued that the throne should not be filled until Parliament had decided what powers to give the Crown , so that " we may secure ourselves from Arbitrary Government " , although in this he was supported by radical Whigs such as Wildman . |
| 2 | The members of the various denominations fought hard against the evils and wickedness of drink and immorality , and in this they were aided by the Constabulary . |
| 3 | Although neither was an art movement in any conventional sense , they were both launched as aesthetic revolutions which were scheduled as critiques of everyday life ; and in this they were both surprisingly successful . |
| 4 | This meant that Marx had to develop a theory which recognized the intellectual nature of man , but which — and in this he was different from Hegel and Kant , who did not believe that there could ultimately be a material origin to ideas — could account for the peculiar history of mankind and for the growth of ideas and their power in natural terms . |
| 5 | Bede 's main object in life was to transmit his knowledge in intelligible form to his contemporaries and successors , and in this he was eminently successful . |
| 6 | He took it upon himself to promote the idea of having a noble building for an Institute in Glasgow , and in this he was ably supported by brothers James and Edwin Docharty , sons of a famous Scottish painter , and a number of other deaf people of exceptional ability . |
| 7 | He was used to handling a great variety of young men , and his piercing stare , as he considered the request , made Hank quail ; he had a suspicion that Peter Dawson could make his wife quail at times , and in this he was right . |
| 8 | Apart from taking the Japanese surrender and recovering Allied prisoners of war , General Gracey 's third task was to maintain law and order ; and in this he was to recognize the sole authority of the French . |
| 9 | He was always ready to help anybody and in this he was greatly assisted by Rosemary . |
| 10 | Eliot was worried that I should have money troubles with Lewis , and in this he was right . |
| 11 | Hugh Dalton , returned to parliament in 1935 , had taken a leading part in reconciling the Party to rearmament and in this he was backed by Bevin , Citrine and the TUC . |
| 12 | I tried to take over the kitchen , but in this I was thwarted by my father who had his own ideas about food , and who would keep interfering and making a mess , whereas I preferred to clear away and wash up as I went along . |
| 13 | The anonymous writer of 1497 said that apart from London there were only two towns of importance in the country , Bristol and York , but in this he was misinformed , as it seems likely that Norwich , which had undoubtedly had a period of difficulties in the early fifteenth century , had begun to recover about 1465 or 1470 , and was on the way to becoming the second wealthiest city in the land , as it was in the 1520s . |